There was a lightness to Josh Richardson when he rejoined the Miami Heat for Friday morning's shootaround at Quicken Loans Arena, and it extended beyond his mood amid his recovery from a sprained right ankle. In addition to the hope of returning from a six-game absence in Saturday's game against...

Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson doesn't want to make this a competition. As a very young player, he dominated the Broward County youth football scene. As a teen, he did the same while playing high school football in Palm Beach County. Instead of claiming one area, he'd rather just embrace...

A pair of contract protests Wednesday by unionized passenger airline and cargo pilots in Broward County could signal turbulent skies ahead for some travelers and air package carriers. A contingent of about 70 pilots from contract air cargo operators of DHL Express staged an informational picket...

A Boca Raton company is on track to offer women 40 and older who suffer from hot flashes due to menopause another alternative. TherapeuticsMD, which specializes in women's health products, has completed a year-long clinical trial that shows its combined hormone therapy softgel reduces hot flashes,...

The only reason the average premium for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. customers is around $2,500 a year is a state law limiting increases to 10 percent a year. Otherwise, increases in claims payouts over the past year would have put renewing Citizens customers on the hook for an average 65-percent...

Need something to do with your out-of-town guests? Looking for a different way to see South Florida homes decorated with holiday lights? How about by boat, candlelight or both? Here's a look at some of the more unique local tours this holiday season. Waterfront tour The Fort Lauderdale Water Taxi...

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Travel

Actors Warwick Davis and Matthew Lewis will be participating in the 2017 edition of A Celebration of Harry Potter, a three-day event at Universal Studios theme park. Lewis played Neville Longbottom in all eight of the “Harry Potter” films. He’s also seen in the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey...

Expect to heft — not simply pick up — the menu at Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen. The newest restaurant at Universal's CityWalk delights fans with its decadent desserts and candy store, but its kitchen serves up everything from quiche to filet mignon. You can still get your...

I like the shopping trend of purchasing experiences over objects. It applies readily to theme parks and attractions, most of which have gift cards for admission or extras. But if you or yours are hot to physically unwrap a gift found underneath the tree, there's certainly no shortage of merchandise,...

Nation & World

In the end — isolated, mocked and loathed by millions of protesters who swarmed the streets around her presidential fortress on the side of a sacred granite mountain — even the conservative adulation that had been President Park Geun-Hye's political bedrock failed to save her.

President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review on the election-season hacking that rattled the presidential campaign and raised new concerns about foreign meddling in U.S. elections, a White House official said Friday. White House counterterrorism and Homeland...

More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever. The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids. Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to 12,989, slightly higher than...

Opinion

If you listen to Donald Trump’s version of modern history, he has one of the largest mandates for an incoming president and was elected to undo many of his predecessor’s pet projects. It’s simply not true. The mandate part is a joke. Not only does Trump trail Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton...

Long-time friend and community leader Mario Cartaya had an opinion piece published on Fidel Castro's passing and the impact on Cuba going forward. No doubt that Mario earnestly and honestly authored that piece with belief and conviction in his message. Yet I was struck by some of the phrasing which...

I'm very sad to say, but it was only a matter of time. The stories are different, but somehow always the same: a well-loved, well-trusted, talented individual infiltrates a youth-serving organization to gain access to children, and successfully victimizes, abuses, and shames kids into silence,...

Health

Shaving or waxing the hair down there may feel like the hygienic thing to do, but a new study suggests that those who regularly remove their pubic hair could be at greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, according to the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The study,...

You're never too old to reap the health benefits of quitting smoking, a new study finds. "Even participants who quit smoking as recently as in their 60s were 23 percent less likely to die during follow-up than those who continued to smoke into their 70s," said lead researcher Sarah Nash, who conducted...

Nearly 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products from National Steak and Poultry are being recalled after some of the products appeared to be undercooked, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Sunday. The department said the possible undercooking...